The construction of deletion codes for the Levenshtein metric is reduced to the construction of codes over the integers for the Manhattan metric by run length coding. The latter codes are constructed by expurgation of translates of lattices. These lattices, in turn, are obtained from Construction A applied to binary codes and Z4−codes. A lower bound on the size of our codes for the Manhattan di...

Background and Objectives: Pomegranate juice (PJ) contains large particles that stick to evaporator walls causing off flavors in the concentrate due to burning. Microfiltration is used to clarify PJ. Fouling is a limiting phenomenon that can prevent the industrialization of membrane clarification. Changes in the geometry of the membrane module such as using baffles are useful to decrease this p...

In this thesis an approach to joint source-channel coding using direct source to channel mappings is studied. The system studied communicates i.i.d. Gaussian sources on a point-to-point Gaussian memoryless channel with limited feedback (supporting channel state information at most). The mappings, named Shannon-Kotel’nikov (SK) mappings, are memoryless mappings between the source space of dimens...

A model for the γp → π+π−p reaction developed earlier is extended to account for all isospin channels. The model includes N , ∆(1232), N∗(1440) and N∗(1520) as intermediate baryonic states and the ρ-meson as an intermediate 2π resonance. Although many terms contribute to the cross section, some channels exhibit particular sensitivity to certain mechanisms of resonance excitation or decay and th...

At the Tevatron, the collider experiments CDF and DØ have data sets at their disposal that compromise several hundreds of reconstructed top-antitop-quark pairs and allow for precision measurements of the cross section and production and decay properties. Besides comparing the measurements to standard model predictions, these data sets open a window to physics beyond the standard model. Dedicate...

This paper introduces the notion of multiset codes as relevant to the problem of reliable information transmission over permutation channels. The motivation for studying permutation channels comes from the effect of out of order delivery of packets in some types of packet networks. The proposed codes are a generalization of the so-called subset codes, recently proposed by the authors. Some of t...

This paper addresses the problem of downlink channel estimation in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The existing methods usually exploit hidden sparsity under a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) basis to estimate the cdownlink channel. However, there are at least two shortcomings of these DFT-based methods: 1) they are applicable to unifor...

Lattice coding and decoding have been shown to achieve the capacity of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. This was accomplished using a minimum mean-square error scaling and randomization to transform the AWGN channel into a modulo-lattice additive noise channel of the same capacity. It has been further shown that when operating at rates below capacity but above the critical rate...

Understanding the flow fields at the micro-scale is key to developing methods of success-fully mixing fluids for micro-scale applications. This paper investigates flow characteristics and mixing efficiency of three different geometries in micro-channels. The geometries of these channels were rectangular with a dimension of; 300 m wide, 100 m deep and 50 mm long. In first channel there was no ob...

The Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) technique was introduced to address the growing demand for higher data-rate applications in communication standards like 3G, WLAN, WiMAXTM. In MIMO systems, both the radio channel propagation conditions and antenna characteristics influence the end user’s quality-of-service (QoS). MIMO channel models, with the ability to simulate the multipath fading th...